Product Description: This book is the product of forty years of hands-on physiochemical work with both ferrous and nonferrous metals and with the metallurgy of refining. extracting. and casting. Its purpose is to cover the various methods of recovery and refining of precious metals...read more

'This work catalogs camps in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Entries include location, names of miners known to have worked the site, year of discovery, and ore value. The work is indexed by topic and mine, and offers a glossary and a copy of the Miners' Ten Commandments'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Whether they are still operational or long abandoned, quarries are often dismissed as eyesores. Despite this, they can be fascinating to visit, and provide an interesting link to a once powerful and necessary industry. Although the Romans worked quarries, it was not until the middle-ages that the industry became established on a large scale...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of Rachel Carson and Eric Schlosser, the veteran journalist Jeff Goodell examines the danger behind President George W. Bush's recent assertion that coal is America's "economic destiny."Despite a devastating, century-long legacy that has claimed millions of lives and ravaged the environment, coal has become hot again -- and will likely get hotter...read more

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Product Description: These two volumes are the proceedings of the 8th World Salt Symposium, held 7 - 11 May 2000 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The papers in the proceedings deal with all aspects of salt and show how important salt is for mankind. "Salt: life depends on it" is not a fancy catchphrase, it is a simple fact...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In The Ashio Riot of 1907, Nimura Kazuo explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine—Japan’s largest mining concern and one of the largest such operations in the world—joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in February 1907...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is the product of forty years of hands-on physiochemical work with both ferrous and nonferrous metals and with the metallurgy of refining. extracting. and casting. Its purpose is to cover the various methods of recovery and refining of precious metals. Both primary sources-placer gold. black sand. and ores-and secondary sources­ scrap jewelry. electronic scrap. old films. buffings. spent plating and stripping solutions. catalytic automobile converters. and old eyeglass frames-are covered. The information contained in this volume is very basic and is intended for hands-on application and use. It is for nonchemist and chemist alike. I will not discuss the mathematical formulas for the various chemical reactions that take place-I leave them to the reader who wants to increase his working knowledge and understanding of chem­ istry. There are many courses offered in chemistry and extractive metallurgy. as well as a number of books available for self-study. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to perform various extractive. refining. and testing operations on precious metals (in various forms and states). with a resulting end product. You will learn how to perform operations in assaying and extraction. qualitative analysis. quantitative analysis. testing. classifying. and con­ centration-some of a purely mechanical nature. some of a chemical nature. Oualitative analysis involves the identification of an unknown material. To do this. you must have a plan of testing or attack. For example. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Provides a basic knowledge of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), general safety practices, and rescue procedures for production operations. Basic and easy to understand, this book covers a wide range of considerations in coping with H2S problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)